THE ISRAEL REPORT November/December '99

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• Marking Time
  Though the week, month, year, decade, century, and millennium are ending tonight according to the Christian calendar, the act of separating moments in the seamlessness of time is something with which the Jewish people can identify.
  
  
• Ariel Sharon: Why Should Israel Reward Syria?
  
  
• Temple Mount: Layers of dirt, history, and conflict
  Michael S. Arnold looks at how the recent flare-up over Solomon's Stables points to the sensitive balance in Jewish-Moslem relations.
  
  
• Take your Country Back (A politically incorrect letter to Israeli Jews)
  
  
• "The Old-New Wise Men Of Chelm"
  Another view on the Golan.
  
  
• MIDDLE ISRAEL: Wuthering Heights
  While not agreeing with the abandonment of the Golan, we post this article for it's explanation of the thinking of those Israelis prepared to "give up the Golan for Peace with Syria".   CFICEJ
  
  
• Tensions Mount
  Just in time for the millennium and Ramadan, Israelis and Palestinians face off over Muslim excavation work on the ultra-sensitive Temple Mount.
  
  
• GOLAN HEIGHTS - Women In Green
  All of us are quite upset by PM Barak's unsatisfactory explanation for his abandonment of his prior strong stand, while he was Chief of Staff, that it was Israel's vital security need to retain the Golan.
  
  
• Dark Days for Democracy in Israel
  In earlier commentaries I expressed my concern that the Barak government's Golan withdrawal campaign would set aside democratic values in its efforts to silence opposition to withdrawal.
  
  
• EYE ON THE MEDIA: Heresy at The New York Times
  After years of an Arafat-can-do-no-wrong approach, born not of political blindness but the fear that criticism of the Palestinian tyrant would harm the peace process, The New York Times and The Boston Globe (same ownership) last week published editorials critical of Israel's peace partner.
  
  
• A Public Declaration
  The Land of Israel is the homeland of the Jewish People by virtue of our Forefather's legacy.
  Recognition of a Palestinian State contradicts the very purpose of a Jewish State creating a mechanism for evicting Jews from their land and planting an alien regime within her boundaries.
  
  
• FM LEVY ON RED LINES , PALESTINIANS, SETTLEMENTS
  "The Palestinians must not harbor illusions that the Israeli Government will change its decision on the withdrawal."
  
  
• EXCERPTS FROM REMARKS OF PRIME MINISTER EHUD BARAK AT ISRAELI POLICY FORUM DINNER
  
  
• EYE ON THE MEDIA: CNN is Fair?
  An amusing phenomenon in the media business is CNN's claim to fairness in its coverage of Israel. There are certain things the network probably cannot help. It should not be held responsible, for instance, for the palpable hostility on its reporters' faces when they talk to Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria - those unspeakable "settlers."
  
  
• The Feast in the Public Eye
  From Australia to Alaska, the ICEJ's Feast of Tabernacles celebration this year received unprecedented coverage in the mainstream media worldwide. Whether on television and radio, in newspapers and magazines, or via the increasingly popular Internet news services, our Succot gathering developed into a hard news story that drew the large Jerusalem-based press corps like never before.
  
  

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